KNOWLEDGE / SNIPPETS

• As post-treatment care shifts from oncologists to primary care providers, survivors need to explicitly determine the roles their physicians assume in their preventive care strategy, a recent study suggests. ...
  
  
• The Food and Drug Administration has revised the format of prescription drug information labels. ...
  
  
• This fall, Medicare will stop paying for care related to certain preventable incidents that occur in hospitals. ...
  
  
• Among large companies that still offer retiree health plans, retired workers are paying more of their total health costs. ...

[THESE ITEMS APPEAR IN FULL IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE OF HEAL]